As someone who makes a good portion of my living as a writer, I choose to embrace ChatGPT to make me more productive. That's how I stay relevant.
For example, today it helped me write a press release. We had dialogue back and forth. I told it to ask me thoughtful questions, and it did. After 5 minutes of back-and-forth, I had the bones of a high-quality press release put together. I then edited it until it met my standards, and submitted it.
This process would have previously taken me a few hours. Today it took less than 30 minutes.
As a result, my value to my employer has gone up because of ChatGPT. I'm able to get a lot more done with it, and they'd be fools to simply replace me with the bot.
In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous metaphor.
I think if you're a writer who refuses to embrace this new reality, you should absolutely be worried. But if you embrace the inevitable, the combination of a skilled copywriter + ChatGPT is incredible. It's my writing partner. I'm still in charge, calling all the shots. But my writing partner helps to prevent writer's block.
Often, I won't use a single word it produced. Instead, it gives me a starting point. Sometimes that starting point is little more than "I need to do better than what this machine produced, because this is crap." But it's soooo much easier to improve on garbage than it is to create out of the blue.
So, I don't think AI is coming for our jobs as writers. If used well, it's the best writing partner you could ask for.
For example, today it helped me write a press release. We had dialogue back and forth. I told it to ask me thoughtful questions, and it did. After 5 minutes of back-and-forth, I had the bones of a high-quality press release put together. I then edited it until it met my standards, and submitted it.
This process would have previously taken me a few hours. Today it took less than 30 minutes.
As a result, my value to my employer has gone up because of ChatGPT. I'm able to get a lot more done with it, and they'd be fools to simply replace me with the bot.
In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous metaphor.
I think if you're a writer who refuses to embrace this new reality, you should absolutely be worried. But if you embrace the inevitable, the combination of a skilled copywriter + ChatGPT is incredible. It's my writing partner. I'm still in charge, calling all the shots. But my writing partner helps to prevent writer's block.
Often, I won't use a single word it produced. Instead, it gives me a starting point. Sometimes that starting point is little more than "I need to do better than what this machine produced, because this is crap." But it's soooo much easier to improve on garbage than it is to create out of the blue.
So, I don't think AI is coming for our jobs as writers. If used well, it's the best writing partner you could ask for.